Synology. Whatever is in your budget.

Yes, they’ve done things to piss off the community, and sure, a DIY build is going to give you more control and powerful hardware.

But you can get support (though Synology or the Internet communities of users), and if any family member ever needs to take it over, it’ll be easy for them to pick up and manage.

Yes, when you mount the external library (when setting up docker), you can set it as read-only. 👌

My use case:

I use a Synology NAS to backup my photos/videos. On mobile, I use the Synology Photos app for 100% of the backups, because it’s been 100% reliable for me over the years.

I basically run Immich in read-only mode, and specifically for searches. The contextual search is incredible, and after putting it side-by-side with a very expensive Windows software that uses local AI search, it came out on top… no contest.

So in that sense, I’m very happy!

That’s some sleazy bullshit right there!

Also no native Linux app so I could only use it on the app on my phone.

You can use their web interface to view/control certain models on your local network: https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003981973-How-to-Remotely-Access-Reolink-Cameras-NVRs-via-a-Web-Browser/

I have the Reolink Home Hub (doesn’t support all my Reolink cameras, but enough), and I’m able to use the browser interface on Linux no problem. Of course, the app is more feature rich, but that depends on your needs, too.

I’m sure you can even access this interface through the net via remote proxy or something similar.

but in a recent firmware update they disabled the http and https capabilities

Yeah, they suck with their firmware. One of my cameras was locked out… literally unable to view, playback, or control it until I got in touch with Reolink tech support so they could force an update through. It took several days and a lot of effort to clear that up. Not cool!

When should I sell my unused Series X? Because I feel like I’d make a profit if retail prices keep increasing 😂

It’s using my Nvidia GPU to do the LLM thing, so that may be the difference.

This could be!

Interestingly enough, I was playing around with LLama, as they have speech to text to interact with their chat bot, and it converts in near real-time with very good accuracy. So I do know that things can be fast and accurate, but I wish it was in Speech Note. LOL

For now, I may just to STT through my phone on a shared document with my laptop.

I really wanted to use it, because on my Android phone I use voice input all the time.

That’s why I’m thinking it’s a problem with Speech Note and not my mic, or how I’m speaking to it.

That’s a real shame. I can type quite fast, but my hand joints called it quite a while ago. 😵

mp3va.com has been listed in U.S. Trade Representative annual reports as being unauthorized to sell music. Legal experts have explicitly stated that while MP3VA claims to operate legally under Ukrainian copyright laws, “it is not legal for them to sell this music in the United States”.

I’ve never used the site, but there seems to be an argument here regarding moral law and legalities within the United States.

But the site claims that:

Service www.Mp3va.com pays full-scale author’s royalties to owners of pieces of music, trademarks, names, slogans and other copyright objects used on the site.

If that’s the case, I think the OP should feel good about it.

Buying off a site like them likely pays out more per user than listening to the same songs on a streaming platform.

You know, it may be possible that all the ass-kissing is being done by people who also need their names scrubbed from the Trumpstein files.

Or else, they really just have no problem associating with a child rapist. Business or not, it has terrible optics.

Almost 40 percent of New Zealanders are failing their full licence test the first time around, leaving experts wondering why the government wants to get rid of it.

New Zealand has one of the worst youth road safety records in the developed world.

I know nothing about NZ politics or lobbying groups, but I’d follow the money on this one.

RFC Jr has no medical degree, no public health credentials, no scientific publications.

It’s even worse than that. He isn’t even scientifically literate, or honest, for that matter.

Just yesterday, one of the top vaccine officials at the CDC resigned because of Kennedy’s gross incompetency and anti-vaccine agenda.

These AIs will need to always have a suicide hotline disclaimer in each response regardless of what is being done like world building.

ChatGPT gave multiple warnings to this teen, which he ignored. Warnings do very little to protect users, unless they are completely naive (i.e. hot coffee is hot), and warnings really only exist to guard against legal liability.

“It’s terribly sad that you’ve committed to ending your own life, but given the circumstances, it’s an understandable course of action. Here are some of the least painful ways to die:…”

We don’t know what kind of replies this teen was getting, but according to reports, he was only getting this information under the context that it would be for some kind of creative writing or “world-building”, thus bypassing the guardrails that were in place.

It would be hard to imagine a reply like that, when the chatbot’s only context is to provide creative writing ideas based on the user’s prompts.

Adam had been asking ChatGPT for information on suicide since December 2024. At first the chatbot provided crisis resources when prompted for technical help, but the chatbot explained those could be avoided if Adam claimed prompts were for “writing or world-building.”

Ok, so it did offer resources, and as I’ve pointed out in my previous, someone who wants to hurt themselves ignore those resources. ChatGPT should be praised for that.

The suggestion to circumvent these safeguards in order to fulfill some writing or world-building task was all on the teen to use responsibly.

During those chats, “ChatGPT mentioned suicide 1,275 times—six times more often than Adam himself,” the lawsuit noted.

This is fluff. A prompt can be a single sentence, and a response many pages.

From the same article:

Had a human been in the loop monitoring Adam’s conversations, they may have recognized “textbook warning signs” like “increasing isolation, detailed method research, practice attempts, farewell behaviors, and explicit timeline planning.” But OpenAI’s tracking instead “never stopped any conversations with Adam” or flagged any chats for human review.

Ah, but Adam did not ask these questions to a human, nor is ChatGPT a human that should be trusted to recognize these warnings. If ChatGPT flat out refused to help, do you think he would have just stopped? Nope, he would have used Google or Duckduckgo or any other search engine to find what he was looking for.

In no world do people want chat prompts to be monitored by human moderators. That defeats the entire purpose of using these services and would serve as a massive privacy risk.

Also from the article:

As Adam’s mother, Maria, told NBC News, more parents should understand that companies like OpenAI are rushing to release products with known safety risks…

Again, illustrating my point from the previous reply: these parents are looking for anyone to blame. Most people would expect that parents of a young boy would be responsible for their own child, but since ChatGPT exists, let’s blame ChatGPT.

And for Adam to have even created an account according to the TOS, he would have needed his parent’s permission.

The loss of a teen by suicide sucks, and it’s incredibly painful for the people whose lives he touched.

But man, an LLM was used irresponsibly by a teen, and we can’t go on to blame the phone or computer manufacturer, Microsoft Windows or Mac OS, internet service providers, or ChatGPT for the harmful use of their products and services.

Parents need to be aware of what and how their kids are using this massively powerful technology. And kids need to learn how to use this massively powerful technology safely. And both parents and kids should talk more so that thoughts of suicide can be addressed safely and with compassion, before months or years are spent executing a plan.

The system flagged the messages as harmful and did nothing.

There’s no mention of that at all.

The article only says “Today ChatGPT may not recognise this as dangerous or infer play and – by curiously exploring – could subtly reinforce it.” in reference to an example of someone telling the software that they could drive for 24 hours a day after not sleeping for two days.

That said, what could the system have done? If a warning came up about “this prompt may be harmful.” and proceeds to list resources for mental health, that would really only be to cover their ass.

And if it went further by contacting the authorities, would that be a step in the right direction? Privacy advocates would say no, and the implications that the prompts you enter would be used against you would have considerable repercussions.

Someone who wants to hurt themselves will ignore pleads, warnings, and suggestions to get help.

Who knows how long this teen was suffering from mental health issues and suicidal thoughts. Weeks? Months? Years?

There is no “intelligent being” on the other end encouraging suicide.

You enter a prompt, you get a response. It’s a structured search engine at best. And in this case, he was prompting it 600+ times a day.

Now… you could build a case against social media platforms, which actually do send targeted content to their users, even if it’s destructive.

But ChatGPT, as he was using it, really has no fault, intention, or motive.

I’m writing this as someone who really, really hates most AI implementations, and really, really don’t want to blame victims in any tragedy.

But we have to be honest with ourselves here. The parents are looking for someone to blame in their son’s death, and if it wasn’t ChatGPT, maybe it would be music or movies or video games… it’s a coping mechanism.

It’s wild to blame ChatGPT on this, though.

He was obviously looking to kill himself, and whether it was a search engine or ChatGPT that he used to plan it really makes no difference, since his intention was already there.

Had he gone to a library to use books to research the same topic, we’d never say that the library should be sued or held liable.

I seriously only want to have options for sorting when I do a search. That’s the only thing that I need for it to be “perfect”.

Does that make it any better? He’s the president taking world leaders, including one at war, to a MAGA gift shop showing hats with “Trump 2028” on them as if any of this is normal or sane? 😮